ESG Controller for McDonald's in the Nordics
- Applications are considered on a rolling basis
- Multiple locations
- Hybrid
McDonald’s is the largest restaurant chain in the Nordics and the market leader in both sales and market share, serving iconic products such as the Big Mac and world famous fries to over 600,000 guests every day.
Food Folk is the Nordic organization behind McDonald’s, one of the world’s most iconic brands. With 70 franchisee groups and over 20,000 employees across Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, we are on a mission to build a purpose driven, high performing culture that reflects our values and inspires our people.
The Role
As ESG Controller, you will support and drive Food Folk’s sustainability performance through a data driven way of working. You will play a key role in establishing, managing, and analysing ESG data to support strategy development, target setting, performance monitoring, reporting, and legally required disclosures.
This role is central to strengthening Food Folk’s sustainability agenda by turning complex data into clear insights and practical actions. You will work closely with the Impact team, internal subject matter experts, and selected external stakeholders to build a structured, reliable, and efficient approach to sustainability data and performance management.
You are curious, proactive, and highly structured, with strong attention to detail and the ability to make complex matters tangible and relevant for different stakeholders.
The position reports to the Impact Director, based in Copenhagen.
Key Responsibilities include
- Establish and develop the ESG data infrastructure needed to support reporting, disclosure, and performance follow up
- Ensure the collection, maintenance, validation, and consolidation of ESG data across existing systems, while supporting new data flows, master data, and basic integrations
- Analyse ESG data, apply standardized calculation methodologies, and prepare insights and reports to support strategic planning, target setting, monitoring, and follow up
- Facilitate data collection across the organisation and relevant parts of the value chain to support legally required ESG disclosures, including CSRD
- Drive continuous improvement by helping optimise and automate ESG data processes to improve accuracy, efficiency, and relevance
- Collaborate with internal teams and external stakeholders to collect, verify, and communicate ESG data, enabling both aggregated reporting and more detailed breakdowns where needed
Skills & Requirements
Who are you?
You bring a strong data and performance mindset and are motivated by turning complexity into clarity. You are comfortable working with financial and non financial data and know how to create structure in an area that continues to evolve. You combine analytical strength with a collaborative approach and enjoy working across teams and disciplines.
We imagine that you have:
- At least 5 years of experience working with financial and or non financial data management
- Experience with data infrastructure, data governance, data quality, extraction, and transformation
- Experience working with Power BI
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to work with complex datasets and turn them into meaningful insights
- A structured and organised approach, a high level of ownership, and the ability to adapt to changing priorities
- Strong collaboration skills and the ability to make complex topics clear and actionable
Experience within sustainability, ESG reporting, CO2 accounting, CSRD, SAP, or Product Lifecycle Management systems is an advantage, but not a requirement.
A BA or MA in Finance, Economics, Business, or a related field is preferred, but not essential.
About the company
McDonald’s is the largest restaurant chain in the Nordics, serving iconic products like the Big Mac® and their world-famous fries to 600.000 guests every day. McDonald’s have approximately 20.000 employees in around 430 restaurants, delivering a great restaurant experience to their guests. Most of the McDonald’s restaurants are owned and operated by local franchisees.
Food Folk Group owns the licensee rights for McDonald’s in the Nordics since 2017 and will join the journey to develop McDonald’s. The Nordic headquarter organization consists of around 220 colleagues. The organization is built on a matrix structure, where about half of the employees are working locally in one of their four markets and half are working in Nordic functions.
Linda Nordgren | Contact Person
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